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Planning for mobile access with Lync 2010 Server

Hi

We are deploying Lync 2010 Server in our environment (we have Exchange 2010 already). So far, we have one Lync Pool, but we'll be having about three in total (Europe, Asia, America).

We need to allow our Blackberry and Windows Mobile users access to Lync clients from their mobile devices. I know with Blackberry and OCS, we had the connection via the OCS CWA.

Does anyone know how this will work with Lync? I understand there is a Mobility service we need to install, but not sure of the specifics?

nlepagnez

Hi Richlionel,

In Lync 2010, there is no CWA equivalent as the LWA role of Lync is not an IM web access as CWA has been for OCS before.

The workaround effectively is to use the CWA role of OCS connected to your Lync 2010 infrastructure.
There is a very good link to explain how to install it, so I don't reexplain it here : http://blog.ucmadeeasy.com/2010/11/18/using-ocs-2007-r2-cwa-with-lync-server-2010/

Do you already begin to install your Lync Infrastructure or do you already have an OCS infrastructure ?! I hope not because the big requirement for CWA is that you have to extend you AD Schema for OCS before to extend it for Lync.

Ask for any question for it.

Kind Regards,
Nicolas

richlionel

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Hi....thanks!!

So you are saying that in order for me to have my mobile devices access Lync 2010 (using Lync Mobile client), I need a 2007 CWA server?

Just to confirm, I'm not talking about some sort of Lync web client, but access using Mobile devices (iPhone, Android, Blackberry etc).

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